Thursday, April 29, 2010

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Other notes on tonight's game (from Sax):

The Dodgers have given up 122 runs this year, 15th in the NL--with the worst team being tonight's opponent, Pittsburgh. Bring your fleece blanket, as you may be there for a while.

Tonight is Dodgertown, USC night. First 20K fans get a Trojan-red USC hat (this looks so wrong); those spending $45 to sit out in the right field lower reserve boondocks also get a free Dodgertown/USC t-shirt and an all-inclusive themed menu (centered around pastrami sandwiches), in addition to Dodger Dogs, nachos, popcorn and soft drinks.

To put a finer point on it, I took the FLyaway bus LAX>Union Station then Gold Line to Pas then a walk home, all so that I could get home sooner than the Super Shuttle would have taken me, and thus join the GT more quickly.

With the Braves news, I gues it's "We don't entirely suck the worst, at least for the moment."

WTF up with Ned? I got a frantic call late last night (Eastern time) from Mrs. Dusty and her sis...they were fuming at Ned. I read some quotes and can't remotely understand what he was thinking, or am I missing something?

Ned's diarrhea of the mouth is going to cost us Matt's services when his deal is up. It's fine to think Kemp's been sub-par lately, but you don't SAY IT ON THE RADIO, especially in as nasty a tone as he used.

OK sure, he was asked about Kemp's baserunning and defense. Fine. If you have to answer the question, you say, "It's not where we want it to be and I'm sure it's not where he wants it to be, but I know he'll improve." Boom. Done. Crisis averted.

For me, one of the best pastrami sandwiches I had was at Jeff Suppan's restaurant. Living in the Valley, I frequent it often. He might not be able to pitch, but he sure knows how to make a pastrami sandwich.

I was just thinking of the Kemp issue. You know Bison and his agent are not going to forget those comments come contract time. Coletti needs to watch his public statements. Idiot. If he'd kept it private, things might have been much different.

why can't we finish off an inning anymore? It seems like we give up so many 2-out runs, and so many are the first runs of the inning. we have a chance to get out of an inning by just getting an out but we can't do it right now

Re: pastrami. I will forever be an east coast snob when it comes to food that can bring you one step closer to the grave. But Langer's has my vote too. They're right near Good Samaritan hospital (where Mini Delino was born). So as my wife went through a few days of rapid post-childbirth weight loss, I did the opposite at Langer's. To quote Homer, I even "invented a meal between breakfast and brunch"

RE: Jeff Suppan restaurant. He's the reason the Mets lost against the Cards in the NLCS (and the Mets general suckiness didn't help.) So if I go to his restaurant, it would have to involve at least one upper decker.